1917 (DECEMBER) - 1918
YEARS

known to her since youth, and an inscription by N. K. Krupskaya: "Address of Shaterni-
kova: Higher Women's Courses. I join the request of Vera Mikhailovna Bonch-Bruevich. N. K. Ulyanova."
2 N. N. Krestinsky — People's Commissar of Finance.

NOTE TO L. D. TROTSKY

[August 1918, no earlier than the 20th]
Comrade Trotsky!
Think about this.
Should we not
appoint
Vatsetis as Supreme Commander-in-Chief?

Lenin
1 The note was written on a report from military commissar A. I. Egorov
concerning the necessity of immediately unifying the management of military operations of the troops in one person's hands, concerning the appointment of a Supreme Commander-in-Chief, responsible before the Council of People's Commissars, and the formation of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
1 I. I. Vatsetis — colonel of the old army. After the October Revolution went over to the side of Soviet power. Participated in the suppression of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary uprising in Moscow in his capacity as commander of the Latvian Rifle Division. Subsequently was commander of the Eastern Front, and from September 1918 to July 1919 — Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the RSFSR.

NOTE TO G. I. PETROVSKY

[Between 21 and 28 August 1918]
To Petrovsky
Ispolatov
complains
that
they
want
to
arrest
him
for
nothing.
You
supposedly
know
what
this
is
about³.
1 G. I. Petrovsky — People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR.
2 N. N. Ispolatov — chairman of the Usman Soviet of Tambov Gubernia.
3 To this note of V. I. Lenin there is a reply from G. I. Petrovsky
stating that he does not know the substance of the matter, but has information characterizing

LENIN COLLECTION
the conduct of N. N. Ispolatov in a negative light, and he has requested the materials of the accusation.
On the back of the note with the address inscription of N. N. Ispolatov, who was in Moscow at that time, there are the following notes by V. I. Lenin: "Ispol-
atov. Room 25. Speak with Petrovsky." (Lenin circled the last phrase with a line).

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. A. FOTIYEVA

[23 August 1918]
I asked permission from Tsyurupa to inform You that he had 2 seizures
today² and that he cannot give a report. He did not permit it, and therefore do not expose me.
It... was not reasonable to ask him for permission. Summon
Svidersky or Bryukhanov³.
1 The correspondence took place at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on 23 August 1918.
2 A. D. Tsyurupa suffered from hunger fainting spells stemming from malnutrition.
3 N. P. Bryukhanov — Deputy People's Commissar of Food.

NOTE TO A. I. RYKOV
[August 1918, no later than the 27th]
Why give separate powers (to the Turkestan expedition on irrigation) to nearly forty persons?
They have no right to do this individually.
One must give a general [power of attorney]¹.
1 The matter concerns the issuance of powers of attorney to members of the Turkestan expedition on irrigation. A. I. Rykov in his note to V. I. Lenin informs of the desire of the expedition's participants to have powers of attorney to each one separately in case they disperse to different places in Turkestan, and alongside this proposes to give a general power of attorney.